Breakthrough!

    This week the Idyll-Beast Research Center was granted access to a cache of evidence of staggering breadth and quality. An officer of a corporation known as KKCo sent us a link to a drop box account which held a  tranche of randomly numbered files. Although our cyber team is still trying to reconstruct the provinance and sequence of the images encrypted therein, preliminary examination points to their authenticity. Certainly they are of of a professionalism rarely seen in our field. Although we are unable to identify the Researcher depicted, or the photographer, these images seem destined to set a high bar for future cryptozoologists.

    Steve and I did have a brief encounter this summer with a team of "fashionistas" here in Idyllwild for a combination photo shoot/cryoto-hominid search. We are big fans of crossover projects and genre bending, so we did all we could to help the intrepid investigators. Maps, literature, advice about camp sites... things many visitors seek at the local Ranger Station, are also available at Steve's "Idyll-Beast Research Center Museum and Gift Shoppe," also know as "the Cave," "Bubba's Books," or "the Hot Corner." Our guest seems to have made herself right at home. 

    The images show off a dazzling array of fine outdoor attire in often startling combinations. An undetermined location for a campsite is chosen, and a tent is pitched. Here is where the confusion over sequence makes establishing a time line difficult. Without time stamps we can't be sure in which order these images were taken, but have done our best to reconstruct a plausible narrative .

    It seems this team had more luck than those TV "Big Foot Hunters" we have grown tired of hearing about and debunking. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here; maybe putting a motley assortment of foul smelling, noisy and besotted bear-men in camo and encouraging them to run amok in the wilderness is not the best way to establish contact with crypto-hominids. This team seems to have employed a kinder, gentler and definitely more elegant approach.

Like all good research, the value is often in new vistas opened up, new avenues of discovery, and new friends made.